# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38159"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:36:01.490Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:22:24.170Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38159"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38159.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38159"
title: "wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds\n\nSet the size to 6 instead of 2, since 'para' array is passed to\n'rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(rtwdev, para[0], &para[1])', which reads\n5 bytes:\n\nvoid rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u8 op_code, u8 *data)\n{\n    ...\n    SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA1(h2c_pkt, *data);\n    SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA2(h2c_pkt, *(data + 1));\n    ...\n    SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA5(h2c_pkt, *(data + 4));\n\nDetected using the static analysis tool - Svace."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ee8ea6937d13b20f90ff35d71ccc03ba448182d"},{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68a1037f0bac4de9a585aa9c879ef886109f3647"},{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74e18211c2c89ab66c9546baa7408288db61aa0d"},{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c13255389499275bc5489a0b5b7940ccea3aef04"},{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9febcc8bded8be0d7efd8237fcef599b6d93b788"},{"version":"4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c2c372de2e108319236203cce6de44d70ae15cd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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